Trial looms for Ronette Ricketts in stabbing of teacher

8:55 AM,
Apr. 9, 2012

Ronette Ricketts

Written by

Larry Hertz
| Poughkeepsie Journal

Dates for pretrial hearings may soon be set for Ronette Ricketts, the Poughkeepsie High School English teacher accused of stabbing a fellow teacher with a screwdriver in a hallway at the school in December. But because Ricketts' mental state at the time of the incident has been raised as an issue by her attorney, a date for the trial is still probably months away.

Ricketts, 40, faces assault and attempted-murder charges in the alleged attack of fellow English teacher Cynthia Glozier in a second-floor hallway on the morning of Dec. 15. She is free on $100,000 bail pending her trial.